Rudolf Sonneborn

Rudolf Goldschmidt Sonneborn (June 22 1898 – June 1 1986) was an oil executive [ [http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F60A14FB345415738DDDAD0A94DE405B858AF1D3 Mercurial Publisher: Dorothy Schiff Sonneborn, "The New York Times", June 25, 1965. Retrieved March 23, 2007.] ] , businessman, and onetime President of The State of Israel Bond Drive [ [http://www.topfoto.co.uk/fotoweb/Preview.fwx?position=1&archiveType=ImageFolder&sorting=ModifiedTimeAsc&search=0859133.jpg&fileId=37D47650838CC38D45944787427ED43BAA16554EB127886169738530E44ED174DB5D9909674395AB80EEC1F06AFB008462EFBB03E0BF594CFC6238CEB7EF1EFC4E38A1BC5CE65D37B9A8053103A90A9B5E22DBD2145EA4BC875B8A1D6640E2073828CF97180CC491B76063335266279B] . Albert Einstein buys the 2000,000th Israel bond - Arquive Photo] In 1919 (aged 20) Rudolf visited Palestine from January to August, acting as the 'Secretary to the Zionist Commission'. He was investigating the feasibility of creating an independent Jewish State of Israel on its territory, achieved 29 years later on May 14th, 1948. A detail account of his trip was recorded in 'Letters Home' [ [http://rudolfsonneborn.blogspot.com/] ] .

In 1947, Sonneborn supplied arms to the Yishuv through a fictitious entity, the Sonneborn Institute [ [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0806134046] [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0595092977] ] [ [http://strweb1-12.websys.aol.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,890661,00.html] ] . Sonneborn was the fourth husband of "New York Post" owner and publisher Dorothy Schiff, a granddaughter of the American financier Jacob Schiff. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50714FB3A5B0C778CDDAF0894DE484D81 NY Times Obituary] ]

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